http://insomnia.ac/commentary/how_good_ ... s_perfect/
Great essay!
A trivial aside about spelling: I notice you spelled 'judgement' with two 'e's, which is the British English spelling (as opposed to the American English 'judgment'). If that was not deliberate, you may want to consider changing it for consistency's sake, as your writing otherwise appears to be entirely in American English.
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How Good Exactly is Perfect?
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How Good Exactly is Perfect?
by Bradford » 01 Jun 2009 18:09
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is.
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by walrusdawg » 01 Jun 2009 21:16
The date is also incorrect (unless this article actually was written two years ago using some sort of clairvoyance).
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by icycalm » 01 Jun 2009 23:29
Fixed lol.
As for the spelling issue, I don't really follow either the American or the British spelling conventions. I simply use whichever variant "looks" and "sounds" more natural to me. So I am consistent, but only with my own tastes. I prefer "theatre" to "theater" for example, because the former is closer to the Greek word it is derived from (theatro). In the case of "judgement", I am more comfortable with the British spelling, so I use that. The American one just seems ugly to me in this case. Usually though I go with the American spelling (behavior, favor, etc.), because I got most of my early English vocabulary from American (Marvel) comics, so I am used to that.
As for the spelling issue, I don't really follow either the American or the British spelling conventions. I simply use whichever variant "looks" and "sounds" more natural to me. So I am consistent, but only with my own tastes. I prefer "theatre" to "theater" for example, because the former is closer to the Greek word it is derived from (theatro). In the case of "judgement", I am more comfortable with the British spelling, so I use that. The American one just seems ugly to me in this case. Usually though I go with the American spelling (behavior, favor, etc.), because I got most of my early English vocabulary from American (Marvel) comics, so I am used to that.
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by icycalm » 20 Sep 2013 17:35
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.ph ... st-2867430
dnf wrote:Roguey wrote:Numerical scores are worthless white noise by the way.
That's because women and low IQ minorities hate maths :troll:
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by El Chaos » 06 Oct 2013 16:29
http://www.gamespot.com/features/gamesp ... q-6414631/
Perhaps they'll finally catch up in another 20 years' time?
Why is the review score system changing?
As times have changed, we felt that we no longer needed to be so granular with our review scores. With the old system, we had 20 different possible scores but only 10 score definitions, which led to some confusion. If an 8 is "great" and a 9 is "superb," what purpose does an 8.5 serve? To address this, we've decided to simplify and remove half-points all together.
Perhaps they'll finally catch up in another 20 years' time?
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